Comparative Legal Traditions: Text, Materials, and Cases on the Civil and Common Law Traditions, With Special Reference to French, German, English (American Casebook Series)

Osakwe, Christopher,Gordon, Michael W.,Glendon, Mary Ann

ISBN 10: 031403501X / ISBN 13: 9780314035011

Published by West Group, 1994

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• Title: Comparative Legal Traditions: Text, Materials, and Cases on the Civil and Common Law Traditions, With Special Reference to French, German, English (American Casebook Series)
• Publisher: West Group
• Publication Date: 1994
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 031403501X
• ISBN 13: 9780314035011
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 2nd Edition
• Condition: Good

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Synopsis

Contents include history, culture, and distribution of the civil law; legal structures in civil law nations; legal actors in the civil law tradition; procedure in civil law system; sources of law and the judicial process in civil law systems; fields of substantive law in civil law systems with regard to economic aspects of divorce, and the role of courts in policing contracts for unfairness; European law and institutions; the rise and fall of the socialist legal tradition; the common-law tradition; history, culture, and distribution of the common-law tradition; legal structures in England; legal actors in England; procedure in England; legal rules in England; and divisions of English law.